Building Bridges over WBAI Radio, 99.5FM
with Mimi Rosenberg & Ken Nash
Mon., December 21, 7 â 8 pm EST
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Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the Lower East Side
Fights de Blasio Displacement Plans
with
. rally sound in front of Gracie Mansion
. Wendy Cheung, Member Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the
Lower East Side and Chinese Staff and Workers Association
. Jacqueline Herran. Member Coalition to Protect Chinatown & the
Lower East Side and National Mobilization Against Sweatshops


Mayor de Blasioâs housing development plans are attacks on working
families and people of color, as he pushes what are overwhelmingly the
building of luxury developments, with a handful of set aside apartments,
which he calls âaffordable.â The word âaffordableâ is misleading as none of
the set aside apartments, for which the developers will receive massive â
kickbacksâ in the form of city tax credits will be accessible to working-class,
low-wage workers, people on fixed incomes, the elderly, and disabled and
homeless who are being pushed out of their neighbors and this city. But, the
Lower East Side and Chinatown neighborhoods are fighting back and have
developed a community-led rezoning plan, seven years in the making. The
Mayor to date has rejected the plan, as he rejected similar efforts for an
alternative plan in East New York, Brooklyn and is set to do the same for
Jerome Avenue in South Bronx and Flushing, Queens. This past month,
nearly 50 Community Boards rejected his mandatory citywide zoning, yet
the Mayor responded by saying their opinions didn't count. He has betrayed
the trust of the people who voted for him, and is continuing Bloomberg's
legacy. Community residents are fighting back against zoning plans that will
strip our neighborhoods of their unique, distinct character to make way for
luxury high rises. There is another way to end the Tale of Two Cities, by
building a multi-ethnic coalition of communities across New York City - to
unite and say "No" to Mayor de Blasio's developer-led rezonings, "Yes" to
community-led rezoning!
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Massive Demonstrations in Puerto Rico
as Teachers Union Fights Austerity
with
Mercedes Martinez, Pres., Teachers Federation of Puerto Rico
(âFMPRâ)

With the rejection by Congress of any meaningful measure for debt relief
despite the current deadline for almost $1 billion in debt payment due on
January 1st, and amidst wealthy investors squeezing the cash-starved Island,
unions in Puerto Rican are bracing for any eventuality, from massive layoffs
to and including the possibly of a government shutdown. A general strike is
one of the responses being discussed by the FMPR, one of the most militant
unions in Puerto Rico. On November 17, 2015 the FMPR led a highly
successful one day strike against the colonial government's brutal austerity
program, and escalating attacks on hard earned workersâ rights, including
pensions and retiree medical benefits and efforts to privatize the school
system. The FMPRâs most recent action, just thus this past week was a civil
disobedience activity at the Department of Treasury, against a pay cut in
the form of denial of a Christmas bonus due to all public workers. While the
colonial government says Cut Back the FMPR says Fight Back!
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